Choice and Rape In India

Aborting baby girls leads to the murder of grown-up women.

Widespread sexual harassment and rape of Indian women has
received a
great deal of media attention for the past few weeks. The
triggering
event that touched off the media firestorm went something
like this:

A dating couple watched a movie and got on a bus to go
home.

This was a private bus, not a city bus. It was
carrying
four of the driver's friends who were along for the ride.

The passengers raped the woman and beat the man while the
driver drove on, bus curtains closed. The victims were
finally
dumped naked by the side of the road. It took them nearly 45
minutes to
get to a hospital.

The woman was savaged with a metal rod which perforated her
intestines. She died a few days later of organ failure
brought about
by massive infection.

Police and government officials have reacted in shock and horror and
promised to "do something." Women's organizations claim that
Indian
men are so disrespectful of women and harass them so badly that many
if not most women are afraid to go out at night.

Choices Have Consequences

Nobody seems to have pointed out the connection between this incident
and women exercising their right to choose. Indian mothers
have been
aborting more girl babies than boys for a long time. This is
partly
because sons support their parents in old age whereas parents must
supply a large amount of money for each daughter's dowry.
There used
to be a saying in Japan that three daughters would bankrupt any
family.

When ultrasound equipment became available, Indian clinics took to
the
the air with advertisements, "Spend 5,000 rupees to save 50,000."
The cost
of an ultrasound and an abortion would be about 5,000 rupees whereas
the girl's dowry could be well north of 50,000. Half the
time, it
would be a boy and there'd be no need of the abortion, so the only
cost was about $12 for the ultrasound. This was a
cost-effective investment.

In China, the one-child policy likewise meant that far more girls were
aborted
than boys. Although Chinese dowries are not as large as in
India,
parents don't believe that the government will support then when
they get old and want sons to do that. The
woman shortage is so severe that a mob of thousands appeared at her
dormitory when a coed posted a message saying she was looking for a boyfriend.
She hadn't considered the fact that her college has 25 men
for every woman.

A Shortage of Asian Women

On May 4, 2010, the
Economistpublished
"Gendercide - the war on baby girls"
which said, "Killed, aborted or neglected, at least 100m girls have
disappeared-and the number is rising."

In today's world, there are 57 million more men than women.
This
surplus of men is concentrated in the youngest age groups and steadily
diminishes until it disappears at about age 50, thereafter becoming a
surplus of women owing to their longer life expectancy. A
surplus of
men characterizes the world's most populous countries - China
and
India - hence the large surplus of men worldwide.
In most
other
countries, there are more women than men. The surplus of women in
older age groups is significant and is increasing, with obvious
implications for health care and other social needs.
[emphasis added]

Experts disagree on exactly how many women
are missing, but it's clearly a problem. As a result
of pregnant women exercising
their freedom to choose, there are places in India where there are
only about 70 women for every 100 men. Wealthy men get
first choice of wives, of course, so the poorer 30% have no chance of
marrying.

Being in demand offers women opportunities to "marry up." In
the case
at hand, the girl was from the lowest Indian class, the untouchables,
and the boy was an upper-class Brahman. They met when she
became the
first member of her family to go to college and had been dating for a
while.

The young man states that his intentions were honorable. Her
father
believed his assurances and gave his permission to for the
relationship.
His
parents would have preferred that he marry a woman of his own caste,
but
better an untouchable than no wife at all.

The View From The Bus

Consider how this couple looked to the men on the bus, who
were lower-caste and barely employed. They were well aware of
the critical shortage of women. When they saw that one
of their women was dating a Brahman, they reacted
in fury and
frustration.

Their anger is understandable - men have strong desires to hang around
with women and the men on the bottom of the ladder know full
well they have no chance of marrying. Islamic men are driven
to
become suicide bombers under similar
circumstances. Their
woman shortage is driven by polygamy instead of by sex-selective
abortion, but the result is the same.

We have the opposite shortage in America where so many black men are
in jail that black women can't find husbands. Some black
women
express anger on seeing a black
man dating white women for pretty
much the same
reason the boys on the bus were angry at seeing a lower-class woman
dating a Brahman instead of one of them.

As the Economist
put it, "Crime rates, bride trafficking, sexual
violence, even female suicide rates are all rising and will rise
further as the lopsided generations reach their maturity."

Nobody wants to admit that choices have consequences, but the
consequences are beginning to show.

Abortion is a progressive word for murder. The old saying is that "She is expecting a baby and not a fetus". Only the most extreme feminests will refer to their future child as a fetus. We have allowed yet another word to be bastardized by the left and I encourage everyone to use the word murder instead of an abortion. It is time to get in the face of these vocabulary-nazis.

Not only is it wrong and against God's laws but like the unintended consequences of laws that our rock stars in DC pass, the Chinese/Indian/Japanese nations have created a bigger monster than the one that they perceived of being overpopulated. This brings me to this topic. The "intellectuals" of the mid 1900"s decided upon themselves that world was becoming overpopulated and that we would not be able to feed ourselves. They totally ignored that the human population had been growing for centuries and that technology had kept up with the need for food. If food were to one day be scarce then the price of it would neccesitate the slowing down of reproduction of the race. It's real simple but Ivory Towers are disjointed from reality. When someone says that the world is becoming over populated throw this at them. Assuming that the average person could stand on 4 square feet of land then the 7 billion people of this planet would only fill up Rhode Island and half of Conneticutt. That leaves a lot of room for growth.

Don't forget, abortion is murder and there are consequences. Let's take our language and its meaning back to reality.

March 5, 2013 12:51 PM

Nate said:

@Bassboat - you are right about the consequences of abortion coming back to roost - there is a HUGE woman shortage all across Asia and that's going to cause all kinds of problems.

March 5, 2013 6:11 PM

supamanc said:

Your interpretation for the causes of this horrific attack is ridiculous - you have taken some unrelated facts and literally pulled this link out of your arse. Don't believe me? look I can do it too: The incident was caused by abstinence. Because religion forbids sex before marriage these men had to gang rape a woman. If sex outside of marriage was permitted, this would never have happened.

This is of course bulls**t, just like your theory.

The cause is a mix of a patriarchal society that classes women as inferior and second class (and often as property/objects to be possessed) combined with a few twisted sick rapists.

March 7, 2013 10:09 AM

Bassboat said:

I for one would like to nominate Offensicht for the "Interpetor of the Year" for his rational article on 'Choice and Rape in India".

March 7, 2013 12:34 PM

Alin_S said:

@supamanc You could have just said you disagree with the author and then explained your position. Instead you have to be insulting because the issue of abortion touched a nerve I presume.

March 7, 2013 1:24 PM

lfon said:

Not to mention wildly illogical. supamanc's sample interpretation:

"The incident was caused by abstinence. Because religion forbids sex before marriage these men had to gang rape a woman. If sex outside of marriage was permitted, this would never have happened"

There is no logical path to that whatsoever. Religions have forbidden sex outside of marriage for thousands of years, and yet the societies that have followed those religions have not been drawn to gang rape. There is no connection - correlative and causative - between religion and gang rape of any kind.